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Cooking Roo-tail at Boggy Hole

That’s all the family gathering for picnic at Boggy Hole. We drove all the way down me and my partner Sammy’s two families. That’s Sammy’s Country down there. Boggy Hole is a special place, there’s water there even when its really dry. It’s always there. Family is taking kids for swimming because it’s boring to stay one place at Red Sandhill (our outstation). We have roo-tails and potatoes, everything. Cordial and ice for the kids. Sammy and the other men men are getting roo tails ready to cook in the fire. 

Categories: Hermannsburg Potters Aboriginal Corporation

Name: Dallissa Brown

Language: English, Western Aranda

Community: Ntaria

Biography:

Dalissa Brown was born in Alice Springs in 1997 and grew up in Hermannsburg, NT. 

Dalissa is the youngest of the Hermannsburg Potters. She joined the pottery in 2020 when she was 23 years old, working alongside her grandmother and senior artist Dawn Wheeler, who has been teaching her stories and how to make pots. Also present with Dalissa in the studio is her mother, fellow artist Shirley Wheeler, her daughter, much loved Layla, and her partner, Sammy Ungwanaka another promising emerging artist.

Dalissa is a lively and prolific maker. The last two years have seen Dalissa's painting and building skills develop phenomenally as she has applied herself to studies in ceramics through TAFE at Charles Darwin University. 

Dalissa was a finalist in the 2024 Ravenswood Women's Art Prize in the Indigenous Emerging Artist category. 

In 2024 Dalissa participated in a workshops series with Artback NT, creating sensory objects to accompany 'True Story', an exhibition which will tour nationally throughout 2025-28. 

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